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Copying files to A- drive

I have been trying to copy many small files (3 to 8 kilo bytes, with a total of 900 k.b. from C: to A: When it gets to a n arbitrary spot I get a message "The directory or file cannot be created". When it stops I can use another floppy and copy more. It takes three floppies to do 900 k.b. of data. I have been able to copy these same files to another place on the hard drive.

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It appears you are running into the limit on the number of entries in the root directory of a FAT volume. Even though there is more file space available on your floppy, there is another limit on the count of files in the root directory. The limits are:

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